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Carjacker Popped After Asking TV News Crew For Directions

A little bit of advice for any prospective carjackers out there, bring any of the many GPS units we talk about here with you. In addition to impressing potential victims with your foresightedness, it'll also help you avoid the fate of one slow-witted 19-year-old Cleveland man. Having commandeered a vehicle at gunpoint, the young man realized he was lost and had to ask someone for directions. This is bad because you're going to be giving someone else a general idea of where you're going. Second, if you do have to ask for directions it may not be a good idea to ask a television news crew. More »

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Cleveland School Bus Crash Story Gets Even Better

We'd feel bad having so much fun with the story of the Cleveland school bus crash if anyone was seriously hurt, but seeing as how everyone was okay we're going to enjoy the 15 ways this is funny. Both the limo company and the school are denying hiring driver Michael Weir. Why? We already told you he's got a criminal record for grand theft auto, but what we didn't know was that the news station has a video file of his accidents, including one in which he flipped a dump truck after hitting a bridge. That's two bridges in two years. Also, his mom has a restraining order against him because he stole stuff from her. Is he really a bad guy? Just ask the dude with a trach smoking a cigarette. We love Cleveland. (h/t to SLRSpeedShop)[WKYC]

offbeat news

Children Bail Out Of Runaway School Bus While Driver Takes A Leak

Taking a page out of Otto's playbook, a school bus driver in Cleveland abandoned his vehicle to fill her up with diesel and hit the head. And why aren't you supposed to leave a school bus when it's full of kids? Because of what happened next. While the driver was doing his business the bus rolled out of the gas station and down a hill. According to the manager of the gas station, who chased down the bus on foot, kids started bailing out of the rig before it hit anything. One of the 27 kids on board was smart enough to steer the bus into a bridge embankment before it rolled into oncoming traffic or worse. No one was seriously injured, though 15 kids were taken to the hospital. How did this happen? More »

Oh god no — please Chevy, don't go down Mustang Road. We're really hoping Corvette's not heading down the same road as the Ford pony car — with random "limited-production" runs hitting the stage of random small-market auto shows. But then we see this number straight from the Ford playbook — the 2008 Corvette 427 Limited Edition Z06. This new 'vette, unveiled at the Cleveland Auto Show (we mean Cleveland rocks, but who knew?) is supposed to pay homage to the big-block Stingray from the mid-1960's with the "427" signifying the cubic-inch displacement of the biggest of the big-blocks offered between 1966 and 1969 and also happens to be the cubic-inch equivalent of the Z06's 7.0-liter small-block V8. Yup, nothing says big-block like big small blocks. But what else makes this here Z06 special? Nothing really. Well, not nothing, but can we really count Crystal Red Tintcoat paint? Yes, it may be the first Z06 ever offered with a red metallic tintcoat paint — but does it need it's own model to do it? Perhaps not. Full press release detailing all the new details — like "427" stitching on the seats and the fact they'll only build 505 of them (nice HP reference) with only 427 of them available in the U.S. — from the General below the jump. Did we mention "427" may be the mark of the devil? Just sayin'...

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